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those who had the name of Eustathius were not persuaded. Those around Eusebius and Lucifer sought to find a way to this union; and Eusebius thought it right for Lucifer to go to Alexandria and communicate with Athanasius the Great about this, while he himself was willing to undertake the labor of the agreement. But Lucifer did not arrive in Alexandria, but he went to the city of Antioch. And having offered many arguments about an agreement to both sides, then seeing that the party of Eustathius objected (Paulinus, a presbyter, was the leader of this group), he ordained for them, not doing well, Paulinus as bishop. this made that di 181 vision longer; for it remained for eighty-five years until the presidency of Alexander, who is worthy of all praise; who, having been entrusted with the rudders of the church of the Antiochians, having moved every resource and having brought to bear all zeal and eagerness for harmony, joined the separated member to the rest of the body of the church. Then indeed Lucifer, having increased the division, spent a very long time in Antioch. But Eusebius, arriving in Antioch and recognizing from the bad treatment that the malady had become difficult to cure, sailed away to the West. But Lucifer, having gone to Sardinia, added certain other things to the ecclesiastical doctrines. And those who accepted these things also took their name from his appellation; for they were called Luciferians for a very long time. But this doctrine also died out and was given over to oblivion. These things, therefore, happened after the return of the bishops. But when Julian revealed his own impiety, the cities were filled with seditions. For those enslaved by the error of idols took courage and opened the shrines of the idols, and they performed those abominable and oblivion-worthy rites; and they lit the altar fire, and defiling the earth with the blood of the victims, they polluted the air with the smell of roasting flesh and smoke. And driven to a Bacchic frenzy by the demons they served, raging and corybantically raving, they ran about the streets and used buffoonery and comedies against the saints, and no kind of reviling and mocking procession was absent. But the followers of piety, unable to bear their blasphemies, reviled them in return and refuted the error held by them. But the workers of impiety grew angry, and having as a provision for their audacity the freedom of speech that came to them from 182 the ruler, they inflicted incurable blows upon them. For the all-abominable emperor, when he ought to have been providing for the peace of his subjects, himself drove the people to madness against each other. For he overlooked the outrages committed by the more audacious against the more moderate, and he entrusted both the civil and military offices to the most cruel and impious men, who, while they did not openly compel the lovers of piety to sacrifice, inflicted upon them every kind of dishonor. For he also took away the privileges that had been assigned to the consecrated men by the great Constantine. And what things those bound to the deceit of idols dared at that time are very many and require their own written account; but I will relate a few things out of many. For in Ascalon and Gaza (these are cities of Palestine), having ripped open the bellies of men deemed worthy of the priesthood and of women who had professed lifelong virginity, then having filled them with barley, they set them forth as food for pigs. And in Sebaste (and this also belongs to the aforementioned nation), they opened the tomb of John the Baptist, gave his bones to the fire, and scattered the dust. But the abomination dared in Phoenicia, how could one relate without tears? For in Heliopolis, which is near 183 Lebanon, there was a certain deacon, Cyril. This man, during the reign of Constantine, being fired by divine zeal, shattered many of the idols worshipped there. Remembering this deed, the infamous men not only killed him, but also the

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Εὐσταθίου τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν ἔχοντες οὐκ ἐπείσθησαν. Τῆσδε τῆς συναφείας οἱ περὶ τὸν Εὐσέβιον καὶ Λουκίφερα πόρον ἐπεζήτουν εὑρεῖν· καὶ Λουκίφερα μὲν ὁ Εὐσέβιος τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν ἠξίου καταλαβεῖν καὶ Ἀθανασίῳ τῷ μεγάλῳ περὶ τούτου κοινώσασθαι, αὐτὸς δέ γε τὸν περὶ τῆς συμβάσεως ἤθελεν ἀναδέξασθαι πόνον. Ἀλλ' ὁ Λουκίφερ εἰς μὲν τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν οὐκ ἀφίκετο, τὴν Ἀντιόχου δὲ πόλιν κατέλαβε. πολλοὺς δὲ περὶ συμβάσεως λόγους καὶ τούτοις κἀκείνοις προσενεγκών, εἶτα ἰδὼν ἀντιλέγοντας τοὺς τῆς Εὐσταθίου συμμορίας (ἡγεῖτο δὲ ταύτης Παυλῖνος πρεσβύτερος ὤν), ἐχειροτόνησεν αὐτοῖς, οὐκ εὖ γε ποιῶν, τὸν Παυλῖνον ἐπίσκοπον. τοῦτο τὴν διά 181 στασιν ἐκείνην μακροτέραν εἰργάσατο· πέντε γὰρ καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα διέμεινεν ἔτη μέχρι τῆς Ἀλεξάνδρου τοῦ πάσης εὐφημίας ἀξίου προε δρίας· ὃς τῆς Ἀντιοχέων ἐκκλησίας ἐγχειρισθεὶς τὰ πηδάλια, πάντα πόρον κινήσας καὶ πᾶσαν ὑπὲρ τῆς ὁμονοίας εἰσενεγκὼν σπουδήν τε καὶ προθυμίαν, τὸ κεχωρισμένον μέλος τῷ λοιπῷ τῆς ἐκκλησίας συνήρμοσε σώματι. τότε δὴ τὴν διάστασιν ὁ Λουκίφερ αὐξήσας πλεῖστον ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ διέτριψε χρόνον. ὁ δέ γε Εὐσέβιος, εἰς τὴν Ἀντιόχειαν ἀφικόμενος καὶ γνοὺς ἐκ τῆς οὐκ ἀγαθῆς ἰατρείας δυσίατον τὸ πάθος γεγενημένον, εἰς τὴν Ἑσπέραν ἀπέπλευσεν. ὁ δὲ Λουκίφερ εἰς τὴν Σαρδῶ παραγενόμενος ἕτερά τινα τοῖς ἐκκλησιαστικοῖς προσ τέθεικε δόγμασιν. οἱ δὲ ταῦτα καταδεξάμενοι ἐκ τῆς τούτου προση γορίας καὶ τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν ἐδέξαντο· Λουκιφεριανοὶ γὰρ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ὠνομάζοντο χρόνον. ἀπέσβη δὲ καὶ τοῦτο τὸ δόγμα καὶ παρεδόθη τῇ λήθῃ. ταῦτα μὲν οὖν μετὰ τὴν ἐπάνοδον τῶν ἐπισκόπων ἐγένετο. Ἰουλιανοῦ δὲ τὴν οἰκείαν ἀσέβειαν ἐκκαλύψαντος, αἱ πόλεις στά σεων ἐνεπλήσθησαν. ἀναθαρρήσαντες γὰρ οἱ τῇ τῶν εἰδώλων πλάνῃ δεδουλωμένοι ἀνέῳξαν μὲν τοὺς τῶν εἰδώλων σηκούς, τὰς δὲ μυσαρὰς ἐκείνας καὶ λήθης ἀξίας τελετὰς ἐπετέλουν· καὶ ἧπτον μὲν τὸ ἐπι βώμιον πῦρ, τὴν δὲ γῆν τῷ αἵματι τῶν θυμάτων μιαίνοντες ἐμόλυνον κνίσῃ καὶ καπνῷ τὸν ἀέρα. ὑπὸ δὲ τῶν θεραπευομένων βακχευό μενοι δαιμόνων, λυττῶντες καὶ κορυβαντιῶντες τὰς ἀγυιὰς περιέθεον βωμολοχίαις τε καὶ κωμῳδίαις κατὰ τῶν ἁγίων ἐχρῶντο, καὶ λοιδο ρίας καὶ πομπείας οὐδὲν εἶδος ἀπῆν. οἱ δὲ τῆς εὐσεβείας θιασῶται, φέρειν τὰς τούτων οὐ δυνάμενοι βλασφημίας, ἀντελοιδοροῦντο καὶ τὴν ὑπ' ἐκείνων πρεσβευομένην διήλεγχον πλάνην. χαλεπαίνοντες δὲ οἱ τῆς ἀσεβείας ἐργάται καὶ θρασύτητος ἐφόδιον ἔχοντες τὴν ἀπὸ 182 τοῦ κρατοῦντος αὐτοῖς προσγενομένην παρρησίαν, πληγὰς αὐτοῖς ἀνηκέστους ἐπέφερον. ὁ γὰρ παμμίαρος βασιλεύς, δέον προμηθεῖσθαι τῆς τῶν ἀρχομένων εἰρήνης, αὐτὸς τοὺς δήμους κατ' ἀλλήλων ἐξέμηνε. περιεώρα γὰρ τὰ παρὰ τῶν θρασυτέρων κατὰ τῶν ἐπιεικεστέρων τολμώμενα, καὶ τὰς πολιτικὰς δὲ καὶ στρατιωτικὰς ἀρχὰς τοῖς ὠμο τάτοις καὶ δυσσεβεστάτοις ἐπίστευεν, οἳ προφανῶς μὲν θύειν τοὺς τῆς εὐσεβείας ἐραστὰς οὐκ ἠνάγκαζον, πᾶν δ' εἶδος αὐτοῖς ἐπετίθεσαν ἀτιμίας. ἀφείλετο γὰρ καὶ τὰ γέρα τὰ παρὰ τοῦ μεγάλου Κωνσταν τίνου τοῖς ἱερωμένοις ἀπονενεμημένα. Ὁποῖα δὲ οἱ τῇ τῶν εἰδώλων ἀπάτῃ προσδεδεμένοι κατ' ἐκεῖνον ἐτόλμησαν τὸν καιρόν, πάμπολλα μέν ἐστι καὶ συγγραφῆς ἰδίας δεό μενα· ἐγὼ δὲ ὀλίγα ἐκ πολλῶν διηγήσομαι. ἐν Ἀσκάλωνι μὲν γὰρ καὶ Γάζῃ (πόλεις δὲ αὗται τῆς Παλαιστίνης) ἀνδρῶν ἱερωσύνης ἠξιω μένων καὶ γυναικῶν διὰ βίου τὴν παρθενίαν ἐπηγγελμένων ἀναρρή ξαντες τὰς γαστέρας, εἶτα κριθῶν ἐμπλήσαντες, προὔθηκαν χοίροις βοράν. ἐν Σεβαστῇ δὲ (καὶ αὕτη δὲ εἰς τὸ προειρημένον ἔθνος τελεῖ) Ἰωάννου τοῦ Βαπτιστοῦ τὴν θήκην ἀνέῳξαν πυρί τε παρέδοσαν τὰ ὀστᾶ καὶ τὴν κόνιν ἐσκέδασαν. τὸ δὲ ἐν Φοινίκῃ τολμηθὲν μύσος πῶς ἄν τις ἀδακρυτὶ διηγήσαιτο; ἐν Ἡλιουπόλει γὰρ τῇ πρὸς τῷ 183 Λιβάνῳ Κύριλλός τις διάκονος ἦν. οὗτος ἐν τῇ Κωνσταντίνου βασι λείᾳ ζήλῳ πυρπολούμενος θείῳ πολλὰ τῶν ἐκεῖ προσκυνουμένων εἰδώλων συνέτριψε. ταύτης μεμνημένοι τῆς πράξεως οἱ δυσώνυμοι οὐ μόνον αὐτὸν ἀνεῖλον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν